Spiritual Quotes

I find the spiritual quotes on this page very uplifting, and I hope you will too.

Quotes that inspire us are so necessary some days.

I find it very uplifting to read inspiring quotes and sayings, words of wisdom and some proverbs.

There are days when they lift us from the dolrums or simply remind us of what is important.

I hope you are comforted, inspired to dream, or have your spirits raised by one or more of these wonderful spiritual quotes.

Spiritual Quotes

"What you are is God's gift to you, what you make of yourself is your gift to God."
Jewish Proverb

One of my favorite spiritual quotes from Stephen Covey:
"We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey."
Stephen Covey

"It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control."
Oprah Winfrey

"The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."
Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Each of us must be the change agent we want to see in the world."
Mahatma Gandhi

"Spiritual life is like a moving sidewalk. Whether you go with it or spend your whole life running against it, you're still going to be taken along."
Bernadette Roberts

"There is nothing we like to see so much as the gleam of pleasure in a person's eye when he feels that we have sympathized with him, understood him, interested ourself in his welfare. At these moments something fine and spiritual passes between two friends. These moments are the moments worth living."
Don Marquis

"Spirituality leaps where science cannot yet follow, because science must always test and measure, and much of reality and human experience is immeasurable."
Starhawk

"In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body."
Barbara De Angelis

"Whatever you're thinking about is literally like planning a future event. When you're worrying, you are planning. When you are appreciating, you are planning...What are you planning?"
Abraham
Abraham-Hicks workshop April 19th, 1997

Two wonderful spiritual quotes from A Course in Miracles:
"When you have learned how to decide with God, all decisions become as easy and as right as breathing. There is no effort, and you will be led as gently as if you were being carried down a quiet path in summer."
A Course in Miracles

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."
A Course In Miracles

"True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found."
Eckhart Tolle

"Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Prayer is the great engine to overthrow and rout my spiritual enemies, the great means to procure the graces of which I stand in hourly need."
John Newton

"One night alone in prayer might make us new men, changed from poverty of soul to spiritual wealth, from trembling to triumphing."
Charles Haddon Spurgeon

One of my favorite spiritual quotes:
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
Albert Einstein

"Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness."
Shakti Gawain

"Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way."
Florence Scovel Shinn

"Everyone and everything around you is your teacher."
Ken Keyes Jr.

"A guru might say that spiritual deepening involves a journey toward the unselfconscious living of life as it unfolds, rather than toward a willful determination to make it happen."
John Fortunato

More favorite spiritual quotes...

"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."
Wayne Dyer

"Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use it!"
Ram Dass

"At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it."
Thich Nhat Hanh

"A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
Albert Einstein

"Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still."
By Chinese proverb

"The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth."
M. Scott Peck

"If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought."
Peace Pilgrim

"When I use the word spirituality, I don't necessarily mean religion; I mean whatever it is that helps you feel connected to something that is larger than yourself."
Dean Ornish

"The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it."
Henri J. M. Nouwen

"There are no accidents... there is only some purpose that we haven't yet understood."
Deepak Chopra

"Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place you must find."
Wayne Dyer

"Overwhelment is about you not being up to speed with what you told the Universe that you want. The Universe is yielding to you. You're just not ready to receive it right now."
Abraham-Hicks

"When a man is willing and eager, the gods join in."
Aeschylus

"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become."
Buddha

"Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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